In Vermont, a Call to End Logging in the Green Mountain National Forest

Published in the Boston Globe on November 25, 2022 - read the full story by David Abel here.

”[President Biden’s] order requires federal regulators to identify all the nation’s mature and old-growth forests within a year, and “institutionalize climate-smart management” policies to protect them. There are no existing federal rules to exclusively protect those older forests.

But with the US Forest Service now planning to substantially increase logging in the Green Mountain National Forest — across areas that amount to more than 10 percent of the federally managed land — local climate activists have been staging protests, arguing the agency is defying Biden’s executive order and acting hypocritically.”